Tag: Atherosclerotic plaque

To investigate the effect of longitudinal variations of cap thickness and tissue properties on wall stresses and strains along the atherosclerotic stenosis, stenotic plaque models (uniformly thick, distally thickened, homogenous, and distally stiffened) were constructed and subjected to computational stress analyses with due consideration of fluid–structure interactions (FSI). The analysis considered three different cap thicknesses—45,…